littoral
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China has long dispatched coast guard and research ships around the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in the hotly contested South China Sea, where Beijing and several littoral countries have competing claims.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
A relatively new missile-toting unit of Marines, based on Okinawa, is designed to fight in a contested littoral battlespace by dispersing, concealing themselves, and taking out enemy ships and aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The Houthis command the Tihamah coastal plain, the eastern littoral of the Red Sea.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2024
The new discoveries will increase the ecological importance of the Mallorca channel seamounts and the littoral caves, providing compelling arguments for the Spanish government to emphasize the need for protection measures.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
The second is the Peruvian littoral, home of a much older civilization that has come to light only in the twenty-first century.*
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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